John Bolton - June 10, 2026


Liberals Block Project of National Interest - Push Project of Liberal Interest


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00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 519 a.m. Wednesday, June the 10th. Hope you're
00:00:07.860 having a great start to your Wednesday with the Big Blue Mug of Coffee. It's a pleasure
00:00:11.920 having you here. Getting started a little late today, I've been trying to get my thoughts
00:00:15.160 together on this. Because what I'm doing here today is thinking a little bit differently.
00:00:21.400 We're going to look at two projects in Canada. One project, the first one we're going to
00:00:26.580 talk about is out west. It's a project you could consider in the national interest. Good for all
00:00:33.180 Canadians. The second project would be considered in the Liberal Party of Canada interest and
00:00:40.660 really a benefit to people out east only. It's going to be interesting to see how the Liberals
00:00:47.380 handle their project out east compared to what we could consider in national interest out here
00:00:53.160 in the West and in Canada. You know, we've been told many times we've got trillions of dollars
00:00:59.440 beneath our feet here in Alberta. Literally, where I'm sitting, if you drilled straight down,
00:01:04.480 there's probably oil. And that oil is a lot of money. We've been trying to get a pipeline out
00:01:09.740 to the West Coast for a very long time. The Liberal Party of Canada, you'd think a project
00:01:15.280 of national interest, they try to get out of the way. They don't. Rules, regulations, special
00:01:21.620 memorandums of understanding with the province of Alberta, with all kinds of different things
00:01:27.080 and hoops we have to jump through in order to get the oil and gas out of the ground,
00:01:31.180 and a project that would be considered in the national interest, a project that really shouldn't
00:01:36.240 cost taxpayers any money, unlike the project of liberal interest out east, which we're going to
00:01:42.260 get to in just a moment. Danielle Smith has said, if this pipeline has to be funded by government,
00:01:47.180 it would be a failure. I certainly wouldn't look at having to build another pipeline with government
00:01:53.680 money as being a success. It would be, I think, a failure of the exercise, the exercise we're going
00:01:58.380 through right now. A project in national interest that shouldn't cost taxpayers any money. You'd
00:02:03.680 think the Liberal Party of Canada and the government in Ottawa would be in favor of that,
00:02:07.940 but they're not. And we're going to get to the project of liberal interest out east in just a
00:02:14.080 or setting the stage to see if all the same rules and regulations apply out there as apply here in
00:02:19.260 the West. You might remember the other day I did this video. This is AI generated, obviously.
00:02:24.700 Someone helped Premier Smith or credibility is missing. United Conservative Party loyalists
00:02:29.740 weren't really enthusiastic about what Danielle Smith was telling them, suggesting that all of
00:02:35.040 the nine bad laws are out of the way. The rules and regulations are gone. So conditions are great
00:02:40.000 for a pipeline. I've got her pants on fire here, but the conditions aren't good at all.
00:02:45.600 Here's an article right here that ran. Folks, this is from yesterday.
00:02:50.540 Sunova's CEO says proposed pipeline to Canada's West Coast, currently unfinanceable. Here's a
00:02:56.180 humiliating kick in the crotch for Premier Smith, who's looking for an investor. No doubt she'll 0.99
00:03:01.480 find one, but the pipeline will never be built. We'll get to that in just a moment because
00:03:06.440 conditions are not, have not been met to build a pipeline. And we'll have Mark Carney, his words
00:03:12.020 in just a moment to prove it. Synovus Energy CEO John McKenzie said Tuesday, Alberta's proposed
00:03:18.140 $1 million barrel per day pipeline to British Columbia's Pacific coast cannot be financed by
00:03:23.460 the private sector under Canada's current regulatory regime. McKenzie, who heads one of
00:03:28.640 Canada's largest oil sands companies, said at the Global Energy Show in Calgary that the country's
00:03:34.500 industrial carbon pricing system makes Canadian oil uncompetitive and inhibits the production
00:03:40.500 growth required to fill the proposed pipeline. Even if Danielle Smith trots out an investor,
00:03:47.460 it will never happen. I'm sorry to have to do this to you again, but Mark Carney.
00:03:53.320 We will not impose a project on a province. We need consensus behind these projects
00:04:00.860 and we need the participation of Indigenous peoples.
00:04:04.140 I'm wondering if those same rules apply to the project of liberal interest out East
00:04:08.740 as apply to the project of national interest out West, which would be the pipeline.
00:04:13.760 And I'm also wondering if somebody that looks like me, you know, somebody of a paler persuasion
00:04:19.840 is as important when it comes to these projects and maybe stopping them
00:04:23.960 as the people that Mark Carney refers to in his consensus.
00:04:27.780 Now, what am I talking about?
00:04:29.620 Well, here's a two-minute story that explains it.
00:04:35.220 Planting season in eastern Ontario this spring has meant putting seeds in the ground,
00:04:40.080 and for some, signs and staring at the ceiling.
00:04:43.740 Farmers around here haven't been sleeping because of this Alto project.
00:04:47.780 People are exhausted. I'm exhausted.
00:04:50.680 Karine Bercier is one of the people distributing signs and worrying about the future.
00:04:55.140 The Alto high-speed train is supposed to come through the area.
00:04:57.960 Bercy doesn't know if it'll be close to her family's farm or directly through it.
00:05:03.380 We're there as farmers. Okay, well, how do we prepare for this?
00:05:06.540 The unknown, I think, is worse than knowing where this actual train is going to go.
00:05:13.580 The Alto project is supposed to run from Quebec City to Toronto,
00:05:17.640 but the first stretch being studied is between Montreal and Ottawa.
00:05:21.340 Alto is working to pick the route.
00:05:22.880 By this winter, it's supposed to narrow down the potential path to about a kilometre.
00:05:27.960 Eventually, Alto would expropriate a right-of-way about 60 metres wide to protect the tracks.
00:05:34.280 By the way that this thing is going to be built with like a 10-foot wall around it,
00:05:37.040 it's kind of like a Berlin Wall just heading right down the middle of our county.
00:05:40.760 It's going to make more infrastructure that we can't maintain.
00:05:44.340 Now, Ian Walker's farm isn't along the likely route, but he says he's nervous about the impact.
00:05:49.720 He questions how it will affect livestock and wildlife and access around the region.
00:05:55.020 Alta won't build overpasses on every rural road, meaning dead ends and detours.
00:06:00.580 The project will help people in cities, he says, but they won't feel the sacrifices.
00:06:06.520 We have nothing to gain from it. It's going to stop in Ottawa, it's going to stop in Montreal,
00:06:10.800 and it's going to screw everybody else up on the way to those places.
00:06:15.340 Now, the uncertainty has turned into activism.
00:06:18.940 On both sides of the Quebec-Ontario border,
00:06:21.140 Residents have formed local opposition groups, organized public meetings and staged protests.
00:06:27.160 Quebec's main farmers union has another planned for Parliament Hill Wednesday.
00:06:31.880 It's a very, very bad decision.
00:06:34.180 Well, Walker says the closer the project gets, the more opponents are bracing for battle.
00:06:40.520 If they actually try to go through with it, there will be a lot of rebels, a lot of people that will not be happy, including me.
00:06:48.800 Mike Armstrong, Global News, St. Isidore, Ontario.
00:06:52.780 So what do you think? Do you think the Liberals will cancel this project?
00:06:56.740 Because all of these people are protesting? A growing number of people are protesting?
00:07:01.720 Or is it the wrong type of people that are protesting?
00:07:05.780 And where are those people, by the way?
00:07:08.400 I mean, surely they must have land claims somewhere through eastern Ontario and western Quebec to get in the way.
00:07:15.380 We'll get back to them in just a moment.
00:07:17.240 This article here from today, by the way, National Post, Citizen Group, Farmers and MPs, to protest Alto high-speed rail project on Parliament Hill.
00:07:26.360 You've got Conservatives and Bloc Quebecois arm-in-arm wanting to block this project.
00:07:32.480 And what about Kearney's consensus?
00:07:34.660 Indigenous people and provinces have to be on board.
00:07:37.580 PQ threatens to withdraw Quebec from high-speed rail project if it forms government, which is likely.
00:07:42.320 and then you look at the map from the alto website now there's a corridor called the
00:07:49.920 windsor to quebec city corridor which runs within 100 kilometers of the united states border and
00:07:58.040 this train is going to run from toronto out to quebec city lots of liberal voters in here folks
00:08:03.100 lots of palms to be greased by 90 billion dollars and that's at the low end of the scale it's going
00:08:09.520 be a lot more expensive than that. And for a, for a party that says there's so much about the
00:08:13.740 environment, let me just show you something. If you don't know Ontario and this part of Ontario
00:08:18.280 very well, beautiful area. I've ridden my bicycle from Peterborough up to Ottawa. There's a road
00:08:24.100 here called highway seven. I don't know that you can see it on the map right there. It's a little
00:08:27.480 town called Havelock. There's another one here called Marmara. Friend of mine has a lake called
00:08:31.600 Belmont Lake in this area. Beautiful area. If you were to stop your car on highway seven and walk
00:08:37.340 100 feet in either direction, you'd find a stream, a lake, or a river, and the liberals are going to
00:08:41.480 put a train right through that area. They care about the environment, folks. What about
00:08:48.960 indigenous peoples? Well, this is the Alta website. They're building the train. They've already paid
00:08:54.440 them off. Lots of money out there, folks. $90 billion is the low end of the scale. This is
00:09:00.500 going to go way over budget. Meanwhile, the conservatives call for ethics probe of champagne
00:09:07.580 as questions raised over high-speed rail. Read the sub-headline. Finance minister's partner is a VP
00:09:14.560 of Alto high-speed rail project. You can't write this stuff, folks. It writes itself.
00:09:20.960 Oh, he's been cleared. No problem. No conflict of interest at all. This is another indication
00:09:27.960 of how things are different when it comes to the east compared to the west. A project of national 0.65
00:09:34.220 interest compared to a project of liberal interest and which one gets support. Thank you very much
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